Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 40

And at that saying a touch as of lightning went through the gathering so that each person quivered, and the son of the great, murdered captain looked by the king’s shoulder into the twinkling eye of Goll.

Who acts: that, lightning, person · What happens: say, go, quiver, murder, look · To what, where: touch, gathering, great murdered captain, twinkling eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, lightning, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 saying	cc
2	at	at	SCONJ	_	4 saying	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 saying	nsubj
4	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 touch	det
6	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 as	fixed
9	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saying	ccomp
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 gathering	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gathering	det
13	gathering	gathering	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 quivered	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 person	det
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 quivered	nsubj
18	quivered	quiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 son	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 son	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 son	det
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saying	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	28 captain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 captain	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 captain	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 great	punct
27	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 captain	amod
28	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod
29	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 captain	acl
30	by	by	ADP	_	34 shoulder	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shoulder	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 king	case
34	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looked	obl
35	into	into	ADP	_	38 eye	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 eye	det
37	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 eye	compound
38	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 looked	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Goll	case
40	Goll	Goll	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 eye	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	that	a touch			tree rules
2	go	past	lightning		the gathering		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through gathering=Initial_Location
3	quiver	past	each person				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	murder	participle					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	look	participle		the great murdered captain not said here	the twinkling eye of Goll	by the king's shoulder	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by shoulder=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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